quiet streets
Calm residential lanes
Quiet streets are roads with little traffic, noise, or activity.
The phrase often appears in real estate listings and neighborhood descriptions to suggest peaceful, residential character: They bought a house on a quiet street away from the main road.
Quiet streets imply safety, privacy, and remove from urban bustle.
- cul-de-sacStreet closed at end
- dead endPassage without outlet
- shared spaceArea for collective use
- pedestrian zoneTraffic-restricted walking district
- bike laneRoad section for cyclists
low traffic · sidewalks · traffic calming · tree canopy · alleyway · moonlit · ambient sound · hush · cobblestone · small town · suburban sprawl · parklet · street lamps · window light · early morning · boulevard · single-family homes · front porch
- Small-Town Lifegeneral store, town square, front porch, church steeple, water tower
- suburbiasuburb, suburbs, suburbia, burbs, subdivision
- neighborhoodsneighborhood, suburb, subdivision, Greenwich Village, East Village
- small townssmall town, hamlet, town, village, settlement
- suburbssuburb, subdivision, bedroom community, commuter town, suburban sprawl